FDA Send Warning Letter to GSK Ireland

LOL

Yet another list of failures

http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcementactions/warningletters/ucm390435.htm

 

Time for the Irish to start studying. Assessments coming your way, chapter 1 How to make Pharmaceuticals. Nice job Irish.

 

Would not be surprised if this is where we get advair, breo and anoro.

 

isn't Zebulon NC where respiratory stuff is made?
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/29/3740882/gsk-ramps-up-hiring-in-zebulon.html

Cork doesn't list respiratory
http://www.gsk.ie/gsk_at_a_glance/gsk_cork.html

 

http://truthman30.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/andrew-witty-we-are-able-to-self-reflect-and-take-action-to-fix-problems-and-address-any-inappropriate-behaviour/

Andrew Witty: “we are able to self-reflect and take action to fix problems and address any inappropriate behaviour”…

 

A new era?

Fined over $3 billion for violating federal law in the US, part of a corruption investigation in China - What more for British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline?

Well, a whistleblower has come forward alleging that GlaxoSmithKline employees in Iraq are up to no good.

According to the Wall Street Journal [WSJ] "A person familiar with Glaxo's Mideast operations emailed the U.K. drug company late last year and earlier this year to report what the person said were corrupt practices in Iraq, including continuing issues and alleged misconduct dating from last year and 2012."

WSJ adds, "The emails cite behavior similar to Glaxo's alleged misconduct in China, including alleged bribery of physicians."

The allegations cited include but are not limited to:

Hiring 16 government-employed physicians and pharmacists in Iraq as paid sales representatives for the company while they continued to work for the government.



A government-employed Iraqi emergency-room physician prescribing Glaxo products, even when they weren't in the hospital's pharmacy and a competitor's brand was in stock.



Paying expenses to government-employed doctors to attend international conferences.


The WSJ also writes... "In 2012 Glaxo Iraq won the contract to supply the company's Rotarix vaccine, Glaxo paid for a workshop in Lebanon for Iraqi Ministry of Health officials, the email said. That included paying for a doctor's family to travel to Lebanon "so it would be a family vacation for him at the hotel."

In 2011 Glaxo Iraq signed an agreement with Modern Drug Industries, an Iraqi company, to manufacture and package drugs in Baghdad. At the time GSK said producing drugs closer to the customer would improve their cost base and enable them to sell products on at an "access price".

Hmmmm.

GSK's company tagline is "We are a leading healthcare company that helps people to do more, feel better and live longer"

Bob Fiddaman



Hat tip - The Truthman

 

The Cork site is a commercial active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing site. They don't make any final products. Cork also has an R&D pilot plant, which transfers the API process chemistry from R&D to the commercial (GMS) plant.

 

And the leg bone is connected to the foot bone ....

 

We really don't need to be in this " land of the potato " anyway....pull out and watch them cry !